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Tarbovough) (Edgecombe County, X. C.J Friday-, June 13, 1834
Vol. X.Xo. 39.
7fte "Tarb'froitzh Free Press,'9
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The Episcopal School of North Car
olina was opened on Monday last, in the
spacious stone building just erected for
the purpose, under llio most flattering
auspices. It is situated in a delightful
grove, about half a mile west of the cap
itol, on decidedly one of the most desira
ble and commanding sites any where to
be found in the environs of the city; and
the advantages it possesses, the heallh
fulnessof its locality, und the high repu
tation of the gentlemen entrusted with
its management, will no doubt ensure for
it a very extensive patronage.
Ral. Star.
C7The 227th anniversary of the land
ing of Capt. Smith, with the first co
lonists of Virginia, at Jamestown, was
celebrated at that place on the 24ih ult.
It is estimated that about 2000 persons
were present. Among the visiters who
attended at the special invitation of the
committee, were Mr. Tayler, Mr. Poin
dexter, and Mr. Tipton, of the United
States Senate. The proceedings of the
day were appropriate; and in the evening
the committee escorted their invited
guests to Williamsburg, where they ter
minated the festivities of the day with an
elegant supper. ib.
0C?Tho U. S. frigate Potomac, bear
ing the board pennant of Com. Dow
nes, arrived at Boston on the 23d ultimo,
from the Pacific Ocean. Col. Philo
White, Navy Agent in the Pacific, came
passenger in the Potomac. "The Po
tomac (say the Boston Gazette) having
circumnavigated the Globe, and crossed
and recrossed the Equator six times,
she has encountered dangers of Naviga
tion unknown in ordinary voyages, the
men have been exposed to disease and
pestilence in the most insalubrious re
gions of the earth, and shared besides the
risks of war, in the assault and capture
of the Malay Forts; yet the ship has been
safely navigated throughout, no casual
ty of any moment having occurred du
ring the cruize, and the degree of mor
tality has been even less than usual on
board vessels of war, only twenty seven
having died, (including those killed in
battle at Quallah Baltoo) out of about
five hundred souls ou board."
(tA young man at Pollstown, Perm.,
completely broke in two the cap of his
knee by the exercise of too much muscu
lar exertion in a foot race. The accident
was attended by a loud crack, which was
distinctly heard by the spectators.
(TTThe N. Orleans Bulletin publishes
n letter from Texas dated May 4, which
stales on authority, believed to be un
questionable, that Gen. Santa Ana had
declared that "Ad soon as the war in the
South is finished, I will send 4 or 5000
of the troops to Texas and chastise those
turbulent and insolent North Americans,
and should the smallest resistance be
made, the whole of their property shall
be confiscated and 1 will convert Texas
into a desert.11
scend into a well on the premises, in or
der tolooscu a bucket, which was confined
at the bottom. When the boy had rea
ched the water's edge and was in the act
of effecting the object of his descent, a
rock, on which he stood, suddenly gave
way, and immediately the whole wall
tumbled in uoon him! The family on
reaching the spot discovered that the boy
was alive. The neighbors soon collect
ed, and after laboring ten hours in re
moving the rocks to the depth of some
thing like thirty feet, succeeded in taking
out the boy, who, with the exception of
some slight bruises, was measurably un
injured. Salem Reporter.
07 Two females, named Caroline and
Susannah Crush, residing near Fincas
tle, (Va) poisoned themselves by eating
of the Wild parsnip, or Hemlock hav
ing mistaken it for Angelica. They
were interred in the same grave.
G7A prosecution was some time since
instituted by the proprietors of the New
York Daily Sentinel against a subscriber
for the amount of his subscription to that
paper. lie pleaded that he had not or
dered the paper, that it was sent to him
without his requesting it. The plaintiff
however recovered the amount claimed,
for it was decided that persons receiving
a newspaper, without ordering it to be
discontinued, are liable in every instance
for the price of subscription.
The Clerk Laic. At the last Term
of the Guilford County Court, a manda
mus was served upon their worships to
appear at the bar of the next Superior
Court, to shew cause why the old clerk
should not be restored to his office, &c.
whereupon the Justices agreed by a ccn
sidcrable majority to reinstate the old
clerk, and have no more fuss about it
which was accordingly carried into effect.
Ox. Exam.
OTThe American Peace Society of
Massachusetts offer a prize of a thousand
dollars, for the best treatise on a Con
gress of Nations, for the prevention of
war. The time has been extended to
the 20th of June next.
Providential Escape. On Friday
evening the lGth instant, Gen. Jos. W.
Winston directed his negro boy to dc-
CThe unfortunate man who drown
ed himself in the Schuylkill, at Philadel
phia, as noticed in our last paper proved
to be Mr. John .4. Stone, the author of
the tragedy of Metamora, and other pro
ductions, which stamp him as a man of
genius. He was laboring under an alien
ation of mind.
be the body of a female, approaching a
siate of decomposition: it was entirely;
divested of every article of clothing.!
Doubtless this was an expedient adopted
to elude a recognition of the body. We
also understand that the body was imme
diately interred without examination, or
without calling a jury of inquest, and
that these hasty proceedings were by the
advice of one or more physicians, who
were called on the occasion. We are
surprised to hear that so awful and sus
picious a circumstance should have been
suffered to pass without more scrutiny,
and indulge the hope that a farther exam
ination may yet be instituted, that some
thing may be discovered about the cask
or body by which the whole transaction
may be exposed. Rochester N. Y. Dem.
In return for the services rendered by
a Dr. Cartwright, of Mississippi, during
the prevalence of Cholera in that section
of the country, and particularly on Pine
Ridge, a number of the Planters have
combined, and presented him with a
splendid vase, the cost of which was six
hundred dollars. On it was inscribed,
in addition to the usual complimentary
expressions "In 301 cases, no deaths."
His practice consisted in attacking it in
its incipient state, with a combination of
Camphor, Calomel, ami Cayenne pepper.
A suitable address and reply were deliv
ered ou the occasion of the presentation.
Lookout. An ingenious Yankee has
contrived to copy a bank note on a stone,
and then lithograph the notes to any
quantity by a chemical process. It is im
possible to detect them from the orginal.
A gentleman of Washington county,
Maryland, while travelling through the
state of Ohio, lately discovered, near
Newark, a man by the name of Dean
breaking stones on the road side, whom
he immediately recognised as an individ
ual who had fled from the county in which
he resided, fourteen years ago, to escape
a prosecution for murder. He was forth
with arrested, and has since been identi
fied by another person, though he entirely
denies any knowledge of the cause of his
imprisonment. He was to be removed
to Maryland for trial.
OT'We have received from Baltimore,
a copy of the Report of the Trustees of
the Bank of Maryland. The facts dis
closed by this Report are of an extraor
dinary nature. If we rightly understand
it, not only is the whole capital stock of
the Bank sunk, but its assets fall short of
aying its notes, debts, and deposites by
several hundred thousand dollars! Some
of the particulars of this statement are,
indeed, almost incredible. Nat. Intel.
Fatal Occurrence. The Lexington
Reporter, says: "On Saturday night
last, between the hours of 11 and 12
o'clock, Mrs. Williamson killed her hus
band, Rich'd Williamson, by shooting
him with a musket, loaded with shot, the
contents of which passed through his
heart. She was arrested the next day,
and tried before the Mayor, at a Court of
Inquiry; and the evidence being that she
was pursued by her husband with a knife,
and had reasonable ground of apprehen
sion for her life, she was discharged."
Mysterious. -Y 'e understand that a
gentleman who resides west of this place,
discovered in his orchard a 40 gallon oil
cask, contiguous to the bank of the canal,
and on knocking in one of the heads, to
his astonishment, the contents proved toj
at its last term, in which Mr. J. M. While
and Mr. Wilde with great ability took
the ground said to have been affirmed in
Kentucky State Court. The case was
held over for advisement by the Supreme
Court, whose opinion upon it, will, it is
presumed, be delivered at the next term
of the Court. Pet. Int.
The day before yesterday, the Cashier
of the Consolidated Association, and two
ofthe clerks of the same Bank, were ar
rested. Large deficits have been dis
covered, the cause of which has been tra
ced to those individuals. They save se
curity, each in the sum of 825,000, for
their appearance, at trial, and have since
decamped. Our city has been singular
ly unfortunate of late. Counterfeiters,
&c. &c. have been playing their pranks
amoftg us, at a great rate. What next
to expect, we cannot divine; but we fear
that the pinching times have squeezed
too tight upon the honesty of many yet
undiscovered. New Orleans Paper.
A Neio Continent Discovered.? X
pretty authentic account is published in a
paper printed at the Cape of Good Hope,
ofthe discovery of a New Continent in
the south Pacific Ocean, by two English
whalers, the Tula and Lively. The de
tails, however, do not go beyond the fact
of the existence of such a continent; as
Capt. Briscoe of the Tula states that he
approached no nearer to it than the dis
tance of 30 miles, owing to the obstruc
tions which he met with from the ice and
the state ofthe weather. Capt. B. dis
covered the land on the 28th of February,
1832, and during the following month,
remained in the vicinity. He clearly saw
the black peaks of the mountains above
the snow. It is supposed that this land
forms part of a vast Continent, extend
ing from about longitude 47, 31 East, to
longitude 69. 29 West, as far as the lon
gitude of Cape Horn. The stormy Pe
tros was the only bird seen, and no fish.
It has been named Emderby's Land, lon
gitude 47, 31 E. latitude 63, 30, S. Aa
extent of about 300 miles was seen.
The range of mountains E. S, E.
050(1 Sunday night, 1 1th inst, John
F. Lorctz, of Lincoln county, and his ne
gro boy, were both killed in the neigh
borhood of Yorkville. S. C. by the full
ing of a tree. They were on their way
from Columbia whit her they had been
with a wagon, when the melancholy ac
cident happened.
A gentleman writing from Cumming,
Forsyth Co. Geo. to the Editor ofthe
Milledgeville Times, says, "the locusts
in countless millions cover , the land,
though at this village there are none,
within one mile and throughout the north
and west sections of the country, their
deafening notes remind one of the
plagues of Egypt. So numerous are
they, the swine have' become fat upon
them; the native Indian gathers them by
the quart, and pronounces ihem the rich
est dainties." .
A petit juror recently appeared in his
seat in the Supreme Court at Augusta,
Geo, in a state of intoxication. Judge
Holt immediately fined him twenty dol
lars, and ordered that he should be im
prisoned three days.
A Judge in Kentucky recently decided,
in effect, that the "Bank ofthe Common
wealth," a Bank owned chiefly by the
State, in unconstitutional, being in con
travention . of that clause of the Constitu
tion which prohibits the States from issu
ing bills of credit. The National Intel
ligencer says, that this case "js precisely
similar to one which was argued before
the Supreme Court of the United States
Dreadful Shipwrecks. By the mailer
of Thursday and yesterday we have re
ceived intelligence of the loss of fourteen
square rigged vessels, accompanied by
the loss of not probably less than six hun
dred lives!!! All the vessels, we believe,
were British, and nearly all bound to
Quebec with emigrants.
N. York Journal of Commerce.
We are happy to be able to contradict
the report of the ravages of the Cholera
among the troops at Fort Mitchell, Ala
bama. We learn from the Adjutant
General, that an official report, dated the
22d of May, was received on the 2d inst.
from Captain Fraser, the commanding
officer of Fort Mitchell, in which he
says not a word of sickness of any kind
whatever. If the Cholera had been a
mong the troops, or even prevalent at or
near Fort Mitchell, it is believed that
Captain Fraser would certainly have re
ported the circumstance. Globe.
Another Suspension. The Mechan
ics Bank at Patterson, (N. J.) closed its
doors yesterday at 12 o'clock; and for the
information of those who came knocking
for admittance, posted on the door a no
tice, signed by the Cashier, announcing
that the bank had suspended specie pay
ments! This bank was incorporated but a
year or two ago, and from the want of
age, or something else, lias tottered very
much in its movements, for some months
past. Baltimore Patriot.
The bridge over James River, at Car-
tersville, and the Pomonkey bridge on
the great Northern Mail route, have been
carried away by the freshes, caused by